God is not anything human. God is a force, God is chaos, God is unknown. God is terror and enlightenment at the same time.

There's a lot of people who feel there's a tabloid journalist who had it coming.

There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent.

In Shakespeare, keep it simple. Don't over-inflect. The speech needs to be naturalistic and simple and accessible as much as possible.

I should say, a piece of advice that was given to me very early on by the principle of RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) which is where I went. When he auditioned me, he said, "Your speech, monologue, is fine. It's good. Yeah, I think you have ability but you're making it happen. Don't make it happen, let it happen." And that's a sort of subtle shift I think, as an actor.